Northeast Corridor Newport News, VA to Boston-South Station, MA (1024x 768 pixels)

strench707 said:
...continued:

Here is a shot of the interlocking about a 1/4 mile north of Union station for switching into the Ivy City Facilities:
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Here is a shot from the flyover from the line to Chicago to the MARC Camden Line. This is a look at VRE's area of the Ivy City facilities. You can see the tracks funneling under the bridge at the bottom of the screen which then spread back out for the Amtrak/MARC facilities:
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The Amtrak/MARC building:
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A shot of a Southbound regional going on the wrong track through Landover interlocking. After interlocking the left two tracks split oof to the bypass and pop out to 3 tracks. This reginal is about to lose elcetricity :) :
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Another shot of the samer Regional through Landover interlocking:
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A shot of that regional slightly earlier from the Metro tracks near the Landover Metro station. The train is crossing under the East West highway which interscets with Highway 50 in the vicinity of this shot:
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A shot of the regional just slipping out of New Carollton, MD on the southbound track:
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(Last shot for now) Just a look down the corridor near Landover, MD :
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Thats all for now please comment and enjoy!

Thanks

Davis S.
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Very nice,can I get that station name please?
 
I have no clue which station he is referring to because you quoted every single pic on that one post. Im assuming he is referring to the New Carollton station which I custom made and will be getting new platforms to match the prototypes.

Davis
 
How does Vista screw up Trainz? I have Vista because my XP computer went black just before the New Year, and I got a new HP desktop with Vista 64-bit and 8 gb RAM and quad core processors. My other broken machine was from 2004. Good luck with the route. I'm doing a super route myself, from Philly to Reading, Scranton, Waverly, NY and Reading-Allentown-Manville, NJ and possibly beyond, and Scranton-Delaware Water Gap. (NS, Reading and Northern and other RR's)
 
I have those but now that I have seen Corey's there is no turning back, I really am a die-hard amtrak fan.

Davis
 
rwk said:
How does Vista screw up Trainz? I have Vista because my XP computer went black just before the New Year, and I got a new HP desktop with Vista 64-bit and 8 gb RAM and quad core processors. My other broken machine was from 2004. Good luck with the route. I'm doing a super route myself, from Philly to Reading, Scranton, Waverly, NY and Reading-Allentown-Manville, NJ and possibly beyond, and Scranton-Delaware Water Gap. (NS, Reading and Northern and other RR's)
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That sounds like a pretty involved route, I can't wait to see some of that. Thus far Vista (for me) hasn't altered Trainz or its performance noticably but I have heard tell of others having discrepancies with the OS. In my case XP crashed alot more than Vista.

Davis
 
Update:

I have inched my farther towards DC and I can now see Ivy City engine terminal so I thought it was good time for a break and re-check. The two major problems I have found are the platforms at New Carollton and the WMATA bridges.

I have replaced the New Carollton platforms with a more suitable and protoypical platform spline but the rest of the station is pretty much the same.

In regards to the WMATA bridges I have a width issue that looks severly unprototypical and was temporarily overlooked. I have got the now appropriate bridges and will implement them in the near future.

Now for some screenies:

Here we see a MARC geep cruising north on the Union Station connection:
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Same train but now navigating Landover Interlocking:
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The first two shots are of New Carollton with the old platforms. I should be able to get the revised pics up by morning, its just that photobucket is being unreasonably slow right now.
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Regards

Davis
 
Rugrat said:
In the last two pictures is that a gauntlet track i spy?

William:)
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It is a skewed form. Only one set is used and it goes single track to gauntlet track to single track for no reason. Out of the three tracks that pass through New Carollton it is the only one like it.

Davis
 
strench707 said:
It is a skewed form. Only one set is used and it goes single track to gauntlet track to single track for no reason. Out of the three tracks that pass through New Carollton it is the only one like it.

Davis
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There could be a reason for it. Freight trains are wider than passenger trains and because of this there are cases where a freight takes a chunk of the platform off. The answer, a gauntlet track. Another reason is it protects the platform in case a train derails. I'm not sure about how well it works, though. There's one in Old Saybrook too, seen below.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=134479&nseq=70
And by the looks of things, that MARC train should be using the gauntlet :hehe: :p
 
Michael_Evans said:
There could be a reason for it. Freight trains are wider than passenger trains and because of this there are cases where a freight takes a chunk of the platform off. The answer, a gauntlet track. Another reason is it protects the platform in case a train derails. I'm not sure about how well it works, though. There's one in Old Saybrook too, seen below.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=134479&nseq=70
And by the looks of things, that MARC train should be using the gauntlet :hehe: :p
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Yeah I guess it should. The outer two rails are typically unused and rusty looking but on occasion when a MOW train has recently used them (which is their only real purpose because freight is primarily desginated to track 3 off to the side).

Here is a shot after being recently used, look at the bottom left.

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Davis
 
Very nice route Davis! Thanks for keeping us posted on your work. I look forward to running the NEC someday!

:)

Regards,
Brian
 
This isn't going to be one route is it? I mean...Newport News to Boston, you would need a computer from the year 2063 with like, 999999mb ram to run that. I think it would be better to split it in half or thirds.
But anyway, GREAT LOOKING ROUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just my ten cents,
wridenour
 
I may release it in segments but it will be one big route, lets just say each segment will build off the next w/o merging routes, so for example I will release phase 1 then phase 1 and 2 then phase 1 2 and 3, and so on.

My computer and I are prepared. :):)

Thanks

Davis
 
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